The Life And Prayers Of Saint Paul The Apostle - Plot & Excerpts
He does not tell us what he did there, but there are some who have speculated that he went to Mount Sinai to meditate on his revelation on the road to Damascus. In any case, after an uncertain amount of time, he returned to Damascus and began to proselytize. These earliest attempts of Paul to preach his understanding of the Gospel appears to have incited hatred among Jews and Pagans alike, so much so that they plotted to kill him, according to Acts 9. Paul's own version of the story, which he presents in 2 Corinthians 11, tells us that it was on behalf of King Aretas that he had to flee. King Aretas was the Nabatean king who, only three years after Paul's Damascus experience, seized Damascus from Herod Antipas, the Roman client king of Galilee and Perea. Anyone siding with Herod Antipas might very well have been executed, and it is possible that this played into why Paul could not stay in Damascus. The end result was the same. Paul's supporters went with him to the city gates in the dead of night and lowered him down outside of the city in a basket, or took him down to the harbor and sent him off, depending on the version.
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